Open To Work
Verified
This profile is verified using an email address.
Tab McGriff
Lehigh Acres,USA
Summary
Skilled Quality Engineer Manager with background in leading teams to ensure high-quality product development and delivery. With experience in implementing quality control systems, managed diverse cross-functional teams for efficient operation. Strong skills in fostering continuous improvement culture, training staff on quality measures, and developing strategies to minimize defects. Previous work has demonstrated significant impact through improved manufacturing efficiency and enhanced product quality.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
8
8
Certification
Work History
Quality Engineer/Manger
Progress Rail
08.2024 - Current
- Interface with customers and suppliers on quality related issues
- Maintained QMS and scheduled internal and external audits for AAR-M1003 and ISO:9001 compliance
- Create new and revise existing work instructions.
- Work with Mechanical Engineering to establish appropriate gaging for various operations.
- Create and approve PPAPs Process Capability and Gage MSA studies
- Managed and monitored MSA and Gage R&R studies.
- Collaborate with suppliers on material standards and acceptance
- Analyzed quality reports and data for trends to identify improvement opportunities
- Record issues in the production process and assembly to help improve overall
- Created CAPAs to address non-conforming products and prevent future occurrences
Quality Manager
Pelican Wire
Naples, FL
08.2023 - 08.2024
- Supervised Quality Technicians and Quality Inspectors
- Develop quality control processes and test plans
- Established and monitored customer/supplier relations to enhance collaboration and quality outcomes
- Perform Risk Assessments
- Maintain management review meetings
- Establish Nonconforming Product Process
- Establishing and maintaining ISO compliance ISO:9001 and ISO;17025
- Maintaining the QMS (Quality Management System)
- Managed departmental budget allocations, optimizing resource use for effective quality management
- Maintained 5s and safety procedures to ensure a clean, organized, and compliant work environment
Quality Engineer
Pelican Wire
Naples, FL
11.2022 - 08.2023
- Writing, Reviewing, and updating working instructions
- Implemented cost-saving initiatives, achieving reductions in operational expenses
- Conducted initiatives to minimize variance in production processes, improving overall quality consistency
- Collaborated with Mechanical Engineering to establish gaging for operations.
- Process Capability and Gage MSA studies
- MSA studies customer correlation
- Collaborated with suppliers to define material standards and acceptance criteria, ensuring compliance with quality requirements
- Quality Reports/ analyzing data for trends
- Record issues in the production process and work to help improve overall
Sales Associate
Tire Kingdom
Lehigh Acres, FL
09.2022 - 10.2022
- Guided customers in selecting and purchasing tires to meet their specific needs
- Executed mechanical repairs on vehicles and equipment to ensure optimal performance
- Assisted customers in selecting appropriate tires for their vehicles.
- Maintained accurate inventory of tire stock and supplies.
- Operated point-of-sale systems for processing customer transactions.
Quality and Metrology Lab Supervisor
Progress Rail
Naples, FL
11.2015 - 08.2022
- Led team in conducting gage R&R and MAS studies to enhance measurement accuracy.
- Analyze data through process control and process capability.
- Control incoming and outgoing product quality
- Ensure proper gauges are assigned, controlled, and maintained.
- Acquired gage equipment tailored to specific application needs.
- Perform Process and products audits.
- Monitored and controlled internal calibration.
- Improved timelines and reduced scrap waste through process optimization.
- Conducted receiving inspection and in-process inspection.
- Maintained PPAP and FIAR approval processes.
- Ensure customer satisfaction through continuous improvement.
- Implemented 5S methodology to enhance workplace organization and efficiency.
- Practiced 6s methodology to maintain workplace organization.
Adjunct Instructor
Tallahassee Community College
Tallahassee, FL
01.2013 - 10.2015
QC Technician Team leader
Stanadyne Automotive/ GT Technologies
Tallahassee, FL
04.1989 - 10.2015
- Perform supplier PPAP and dimensional layouts
- Acquired new and replacement gages to ensure measurement accuracy and reliability
- Perform gage R&R and process capability studies
- Operate CMM and Mahr form tester
- Analyze product quality in question and give feedback in written report
- Developed job instructions and SOPs to standardize processes and improve team training
- Write 8D (CAR) and root cause analysis for customer quality concerns
Education
Industrial Machine Maintenance Technology -
Taylor Technical Institute
Perry, FLSkills
- Quality management
- SOP development
- PPAP submissions
- ISO 9000 requirements
- Audit coordination
- Six sigma methodology
- Process capability
- Measurement system analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Supplier collaboration
- Calibration management
- Geometric tolerancing
Certification
- Supervisor Fundamental, Guntersville, AL
- Effective Communication for Supervisors, Naples, FL
- Emotional Intelligence for Supervisors, Naples, FL
- Lean Six Sigma (White Belt), Immokalee Tech
- GD&T, Naples, FL
- Dimensional Metrology, Mitutoyo Tampa, FL
- Management and Leadership Skills, Rockhurst University Tallahassee, FL
- PC DIMIS Software and Application for CMM, Hexagon Metrology Charlotte, NC
- CQIA (Continuous Improvement Associate), TCC Tallahassee, FL
- Industrial Fire and Safety Operation, Lively Technical Center Tallahassee, FL
- Eddy Current Non-Destructive Testing, Haywood, CA
References
- Walter Clyde, Proctor and Gamble, 229 881 0187
- Robert Soares, Solar Systems, 781 492 3518
- Ron Culbreath, Innovative Measuring, 904 607 1196
- Charles McGriff, Walmart Trucker, 850 322 9159
Timeline
Quality Engineer/Manger
Progress Rail
08.2024 - Current
Quality Manager
Pelican Wire
08.2023 - 08.2024
Quality Engineer
Pelican Wire
11.2022 - 08.2023
Sales Associate
Tire Kingdom
09.2022 - 10.2022
Quality and Metrology Lab Supervisor
Progress Rail
11.2015 - 08.2022
Adjunct Instructor
Tallahassee Community College
01.2013 - 10.2015
QC Technician Team leader
Stanadyne Automotive/ GT Technologies
04.1989 - 10.2015
Industrial Machine Maintenance Technology -
Taylor Technical Institute